Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s2.9
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s2.9
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c8.s2.9
Thin plates of metal were also used in the South, and several letters of this kind are mentioned by the early Portuguese writers. A letter on a plate of gold was sent by the king of Vijayanagara in 1514 to the Portuguese chief⁴). Other instances are mentioned, and the practice was evidently a common one, but specimens (for obvious reasons) do not seem to be in existence.